C23C 2/004
Snouts
Official title: {Snouts}
C23C2/004 (Snouts) appears on 127 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 127
- Published applications
- 99
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 323
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2 |
| 2015 | 4 | 13 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2 | 7 |
| 2023 | 11 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for manufacturing hot-dip galvanized steel sheet5 May 2026US 12,618,132 B2Jfe Steel Corporation
- Hot dip coating device and method7 Apr 2026US 12,595,541 B2Tata Steel Nederland Technology B.V.
- Steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction method, steel-sheet defect reduction method, hot-dip galvanized steel sheet manufacturing method, and steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction model generation method7 Apr 2026US 12,595,543 B2Jfe Steel Corporation
- Apparatus and method for dip coating a metal strip using a moveable overflow31 Mar 2026US 12,590,343 B2ArcelorMittal
- Method for dip-coating a metal strip7 Oct 2025US 12,435,387 B2ArcelorMittal
- A hot dip coating device and a method of operating thereof9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193766 A1Tata Steel Ijmuiden B.V.
- Snout control system, and hot-dip galvanizing equipment comprising same30 Oct 2025US 2025/0333832 A1Hyundai Steel Company
- Device for cleaning a snout in a hot-dip galvanization installation3 Apr 2025US 2025/0109472 A1John Cockerill S.A.
- Metal fume reduction apparatus for snout, snout apparatus, and plating facility24 Oct 2024US 2024/0352568 A1Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.
- Method for manufacturing hot-dip galvanized steel sheet26 Sep 2024US 2024/0318290 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Continuous hot dipping apparatus and slide bearing structure therefor30US 5,538,558 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1996
- Method for continuously contact-coating one side only of a ferrous base metal strip with a molten coating metal29US 4,152,471 AArmco Steel Corporation · 1979
- Process for manufacturing galvanized steel sheet by nickel pre-coating method27US 5,203,985 ANippon Steel Corporation · 1993
- Method of treating ferrous strand for coating with aluminum-zinc alloys19US 4,053,663 ABethlehem Steel Corporation · 1977
- Method for hot-dip coating chromium-bearing steel19US 5,175,026 AAllegheny Ludlum Corporation · 1992